Life is very short

Try to see it my way,
Do I have to keep on talking till I can't go on?
While you see it your way,
Run the risk of knowing that our love may soon be gone.

Chorus:

We can work it out,
We can work it out.


Verse #2
Think of what you're saying.
You can get it wrong and still you think that it's all right.
Think of what I'm saying,
We can work it out and get it straight, or say good night.

Chorus:
We can work it out,
We can work it out.

Bridge:
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Verse #3
Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we might fall apart before too long.

Chorus:
We can work it out,
We can work it out.

Bridge:
Life is very short, and there's no time
For fussing and fighting, my friend.
I have always thought that it's a crime,
So I will ask you once again.

Verse #4
Try to see it my way,
Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong.
While you see it your way
There's a chance that we might fall apart before too long.

Chorus:
We can work it out,
We can work it out.



McCartney wrote the words and music to the verses and bridges, with lyrics that "might have been personal" and thus a reference to his relationship with Jane Asher.<3> McCartney then took the song to Lennon: "I took it to John to finish it off and we wrote the middle together."<3> According to Lennon, he "did the middle eight."<4>

With its intimations of mortality, Lennon's contribution to the twelve-bar bridge contrasts typically with what Lennon saw as McCartney's cajoling optimism.<1> As Lennon told Playboy in 1980, "You've got Paul writing, 'We can work it out / We can work it out'—real optimistic, y'know, and me, impatient: 'Life is very short, and there's no time / For fussing and fighting, my friend.'"<4> Based on those comments, some critics overemphasized McCartney's optimism, neglecting the toughness in passages written by McCartney,<1> such as "Do I have to keep on talking until I can't go on?".


Lennon's middle shifts focus from McCartney's concrete reality to a philosophical perspective in B minor, illustrating this with a waltz-time section suggested by George Harrison that leads back to the verse,<3> possibly meant to suggest tiresome struggle.<1> Ian MacDonald said, " passages are so suited to his Salvation Army harmonium that it's hard to imagine them not being composed on it. The swell-pedal crescendos he adds to the verses are, on the other hand, textural washes added in the studio, the first of their kind on a Beatles record and signposts to the enriched sound-palette of Revolver." Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher described the song as "The Song That Defines The Beatles"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Work_It_Out


Revolver is the greatest Beatles album

Eleanor Rigby: "Ah, look at all the lonely people..."

When Paul was in danger of getting too cute and bouncy, John would step in and provide space and poignancy for contrast.

There will never be another L/M.

The edge was never there for McCarthy after the spilt
and Lennon's edge was too much some.

"There will never be another L/M."